Man beaten in Jharkhand on suspicion of theft, dies

A man died on Sunday after he was allegedly beaten up by a group of unidentified persons on suspicion of being a thief in Jharkhand's Koderma town, police said.

Sunil Kumar Yadav, in his early thirties, was suspected of theft and thrashed by locals at the railway colony, Koderma Superintendent of Police M Tamilvanan said.

Yadav was critically injured and admitted to Koderma Sadar Hospital, where he died, the SP said.

A preliminary investigation suggested that Yadav who hailed from Barkatha village in neighbouring Hazaribagh district, was a labourer and came to Koderma in search of work, Tilaiya police station officer-in-charge Ajay Kumar Singh said.

The police have been conducting raids to arrest the accused, he said.